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Did you get a Blue Peter badge? Do tell - fame and fortune await (well, possibly)

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HelenMumsnet · 18/10/2012 11:16

Hello. Some very nice folks at the Beeb have been in touch with us because they're making a programme to mark the 50th anniversary of the Blue Peter badge next year.

And they really want to talk to some people who won a Blue Peter badge when they were young(er).

So, were/are you the proud owner of Blue Peter badge? What kind was it? What did you get it for? And did getting the badge inspire you to bigger and better things?

Do please post your Blue-Peter-badge tales on this thread.

The BBC folk will be watching, and they may ask us to contact some of you to see if you'd be interested in taking part in their programme. (Obviously, you'd be quite free to say no, if you didn't want to.)

Thanks, MNHQ

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MrsAceRimmer · 18/10/2012 12:05

Mum reckons I took photos of the Blue Peter steam engine and sent them in for the white badge she is now going to look them out for me Smile

MrsAceRimmer · 18/10/2012 12:00

I've got 2!! I can't remember why I got them or where they are (I will ask my mum). I have the white shield shaped one with a blue ship on it and a green shield shaped one, but I'm not sure what colour the ship is on it. I think I wrote a piece about endangered animals and sent it in for the green one. I will be back if my mum can remember Smile

MNHQ
HelenMumsnet · 18/10/2012 11:59

KatMumsnet has just fessed up that she got one, too.

For being good at colouring in. Aw.

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BoyMeetsWorld · 18/10/2012 11:57

Me me me!!! I was well proud Grin I got it for designing a tshirt for Tim Henman & I loved it cos it got me cheapy access to fun places. But it's long been lost :( :( I thought mine was all metal though but maybe it was white with a blue ship & I'm just remembering wrong

IAmSheWhoMustBeObeyed · 18/10/2012 11:53

I got a small round white badge for getting somewhere in a drawing competition. I drew Rudolph Valentino. Took my badge into school all proud and excited to show my friends and afterwards one very nonchalantly announced that she had won one too. When asked why she hadn't brought it in she said that she hadn't thought it was that exciting and anyway she didn't want to show off.
Beatch!

GiraffesMum · 18/10/2012 11:53

I do too!! I got a white round one for being a runner up in a competition to design the train of the future! I used it to get free entry to the Heights of Abraham. I still have it although I've just put it in a box in the loft to make more space in our cluttered house.

Fairyjen · 18/10/2012 11:44

I do I do!! Mine was also the white one. I got it from having a poem published in a book. I used it once to jump que and get in free at Madame tussauds! < looks around and whispers... If I give it dd will it get her in places free? >

BedHog · 18/10/2012 11:39

No Sad, I wrote in several times with recipes, pictures etc., but never received the elusive shield shaped badge.

Mind you, I wrote into Jim'll Fix It too - very glad I didn't get one of those badges.

mummymccar · 18/10/2012 11:37

I do! Very proud of mine, although it has since disappeared during one of my many house moves.
It was a little white pin with the blue ship which I got for taking part in a Blue Peter sponsored cycle and then sending them the sponsorship money.
As I say, I was very proud of it and still am. It certainly inspired me to continue with charity work as a teenager. (I wish I could say I still do it but my fiesty 7 month old DD doesn't leave me with much spare time!)

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